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... Phoebe site. Soviet mission planners had consulted scientists and radar maps from the U.S. Pioneer Venus project in deciding where to aim the Veneras; they promised to share Venera data at ... , as the Viking spacecraft Viking s had on Mars. Pioneer Venus I had been orbiting Venus since December 1978, mapping the planet by radar. Pioneer Venus 2 deployed five probes to sample the planet's ... and the ground. Commander would be Paul J. Weitz , 49, who was pilot on Skylab 1 ; copilot would be U.S. Air Force Col. Karol J. Bobko , 44, another rookie. Donald ...

... . (W Star, Dec 1/80, A-2) ARC announced plans to mark the second anniversary of Pioneer Venus's orbiter when it would complete two Earth years (equivalent to three Venus days) circling the cloud-covered planet. It should remain in orbit there until 1992, looking at Venus from ...

... two flight spacecraft and launch support at $55 million. Two Pioneer Venus missions, planned for 1978, would launch one spacecraft to orbit Venus, transmitting data for nearly eight months, and another to explore ... bringing the total contract amount to an estimated $98 952 758. ''(KSC Release 21-74)'' 1-2 February: Congressmen and staff of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics were ...

... the surface of Venus. Previously, both U.S. and Soviet probes had penetrated the planet's cloud cover to send data over a few minutes to several hours; Pioneer Venus returned data on the atmosphere, but none had given an idea of the surface. The President would request the necessary funds in his FY82 budget. The Venus-orbiting imaging ... occurrence of impact craters. (NASA Release 80-166) October 1980 October November 1980 November Nov 1 1980 1 Nov 2 1980 2 Nov 3 1980 3 Nov 4 1980 4 Nov 5 ...

... New York Times reported September 2 that, as of 12:31 p.m. EDT September 1, Pioneer 11 had survived a hail of fine particles to get within 13,000 miles of ... Saturn, Pioneer was to photograph Titan from about 221,000 miles, record its temperature and atmospheric methane, and try to detect "life chemicals"; as no life was evident on Venus or Mars ... that signals from a recently launched Soviet satellite might interfere with reception of Pioneer data, being "between 100 and 1,000 times stronger than the signals we were receiving from our spacecraft ...

... provided 111 million bits of information on Venus and interplanetary space. ''(UPI, NYT, 8/2/63, 7; MSC Space News Roundup, 8/7/63, 1, 2)'' House passed bill to authorize $5 ... on $1 billion in space systems contracts and $3 billion in ballistic missiles and components. ''(Aerospace Corp. Release; NYT, 8/4/63)'' First technical description of U.A.R.'s Pioneer rocket appeared in Cairo newspaper Akher Saa. Article said Pioneer multistage rocket has range of 625 mi., is powered with liquid ...

... Mercury and Venus in early November, was expected to provide the first photos of Mercury. Pioneer 10 was headed for a year-end rendezvous with Jupiter, and Pioneer 11 ( ... Intelsat now carrying three-quarters of the world's intercontinental telecommunications traffic." ''(CR, 10/1/73, S18200)'' Dr. Alexander Rocker, European Space Research Organization ( ESRO ) Director General, sent ...

U.S.S.R. VENUS III spacecraft ‘‘reached” the surface of Venus at 1:56 a.m. EST to become man’s first space probe to land on another ... March 5, U.S.S.R. revealed that communications with VENUS II were lost as the spacecraft approached Venus.) 2,123-1b. VENUS II had flown its entire course without a corrective maneuver ... endangered the future biological assessment of Venus by contaminating the planet.” ‘‘(Pravda, 3/2/66, 1, 4; Grose, NYT, 3/2/66, 1; Wash. Eve. Star, 3/1/66, Al; Simons, Wash. Post, 3 ...

... -NASA SNPO said at AIAA meetings that early explorers of Mars may pass by planet Venus on way back to earth, to slow down spacecraft to safe reentry speed. Side trip ... , 7/1/64; AIAA Booster, 7/2/64, 1; Speech Text; NASA Release 64-161)'' At AIAA banquet, G. Edward Pendray Award was presented to Andrew G. Haley for his "pioneering contribution to ... telecommunications and was a commercial version of Hughes" Syncom satellite- ''(Miles, L. A. Times, 7/1/64)'' NASA-USAF Memorandum of Understanding defined responsibilities of NASA and various USAF organizations which ...

... Corp.; Pioneer-G to fly by Jupiter; Canada's Telesat-B comsat; RAE-B Radio Astronomy Explorer; United Kingdom's Skynet II-A comsat; Mariner mission to fly by Venus and Mercury ... the Soviet launch site during liftoff of Soyuz spacecraft. See March 15-30. ''(Av Wk, 1/1/73, 13)'' An Aviation Week & Space Technology editorial noted the aerospace indus­try forecast for ... nationalization in the public mood that may well prevail four years hence.” ''(Hotz, Av Wk, 1/1/73, 11)'' The "deeper meaning" of Apollo 17 (Dec. 7-19, 1972), the last manned ...

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